Some considerations with respect to the blood : founded on one or two very simple experiments on that fluid / by Benjamin G. Babington.

  • Benjamin Guy Babington
Date:
1831
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Credit: Some considerations with respect to the blood : founded on one or two very simple experiments on that fluid / by Benjamin G. Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    be filling again very fast. A few ounces of blood were taken from the arm, and this blood was found to contain 0-319 per cent, which is considerably above the average of fibrine, and only 3.51 per cent., which is equally below the average quan- tity of albumen; her serum had a specific gravity of 1023. I have no doubt that these undue propor- tions of fibrine and^lbumen wereowingtoa^ecr^^io/z into the cavity of the abdomen of albuminous fluid, without a corresponding deposition of fibrine. The following instance illustrates the same fact. A woman of forty-eight years of age, who for ten weeks had complained of pains in her loins, ana- sarcous swelling of her legs, and general debility, was found to be passing urine which was in a high degree coagulable. It was clear, therefore, that albumen was thus abstracted from the blood, and it was a question whether any fibrinous deposition would account for the corresponding constituent of the Liquor Sanguinis. I examined her blood as drawn from the arm, and found it to contain 0*43 per cent, of fibrine, which is much beyond the usual average, and only 1'61 per cent, of albu- men. The specific gravity of the serum was only 1020 at 60. I have, moreover, examined the spe- cific gravity of serum in several cases with which Dr. Bright has furnished me, where patients have passed coagulable urine, and have always found it much below the usual standard; and although my
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